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Kat
Hawkins
Shaw's Crabhouse
CHICAGO
by Karen Moneymaker

Kat HawKins first got into
wine while working at a large
Italian chain restaurant in
Detroit, her hometown. The
company offered a bonus to any
employee with the initiative to
gain a certification from the Society of Wine Educators, and they
were willing to pay the tuition.
Then a starving college student,
Hawkins took the bait. "I ended
up falling in love with all these
facets of the wine world," she
says. "Wine is never boring."
After more than ten years in

restaurants in Detroit, including sommelier gigs at Joe Muer
Seafood and Wright & Company,
Hawkins moved to Chicago in
2018 and went to work as the
beverage director for Shaw's
Crabhouse.
Hawkins's love of white wine
is influencing the way she's
rebuilding the list at Shaw's. She
has been bringing in Sicilian
whites, Txakolinas, older white
Riojas from R. López de Heredia
and more Savennières. She's also
expanding the restaurant's Burgundy selections. "I inherited a
host of New World reds, which
was strange; and I don't have as
much white Burgundy as I would
like, but if you build it they will
come, right?"
With sauvignon blanc as the
restaurant's number-one seller,
she has been looking for ways
to dig deeper into lesser-known
regions, artisanal producers and
other compelling alternates. "My
customers have no problem leaning into the mineral-driven, highacid styles and it's easy to lead
them into other styles and introduce them to new things," says
Hawkins. "I have an entire page
of Didier Dagueneau selections
now that I've been able to collect.
Those are my shiny new toys."

"Kat has become
a fierce champion of
hospitality, and done
so in an uncompromising
way that puts the guest
first. She doesn't have an
ego. And she has pride
and passion. It's the
perfect combination."

Photo by Ryan Segedi

-JUSTIN KING,
BRIDGE STREET SOCIAL,
DEWITT, MI



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